The Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival is taking place online this year from April 29 to May 9.
Watch more than 200 documentaries online, available across Canada!
This year 12 feature films and six short films from French productions and co-productions will be screened during the festival.
We are happy to support the screenings followed by question-answer sessions with the film crew of the following four films: Indes Gallantes by Philippe Béziat, Acts Of Love by Isidore Bethel and Francis Leplay, Men Who paint water drops by Oan Kim and Brigitte Bouillot and La Diplomatie du caviar by Benoit Bringer.
Film Title: Gallant Indies/ Indes Galantes
Director(s): Philippe Béziat
Film Synopsis: On the stage of Paris’s legendary Opéra Bastille, 30 dancers from non-traditional genres – hip-hop, krump, break and voguing reprise and remix Jean-Philippe Rameau’s baroque masterpiece Les Indes galantes offering a dynamic take on the landmark opera.
Country/Co-Production: France
Film Title: Acts of Love
Director(s): Isidore Bethel, Francis Leplay
Film Synopsis: When his older boyfriend loses interest in him, a filmmaker relocates to Chicago and uses dating apps to cast new lovers in an amorphous project about romantic attraction, compatibility and attachment that his mother hates.
Country/Co-Production: France, USA
Film Title: Man Who Paints Water Drops
Director(s): Oan Kim, Brigitte Bouillot
Film Synopsis: When the filmmaker turns his lens on his elderly father, a renowned Korean artist who eventually sought refuge in France, volumes are revealed about their relationship and his meditative silence and obsession with painting water drops, all rooted in the tragic past of the country he left behind.
Country/Co-Production: France, South Korea
Film Title: Caviar Connection/ La Diplomatie du caviar
Director(s): Benoit Bringer
Film Synopsis: How do dictatorships like Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan launder their reputations from despotic to democratic? This investigative series exposes how Lady Gaga, luxury gifts and scandalous private wealth are used to wield a new “caviar diplomacy” around the world
Country/Co-Production: France
